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#1. Humanities Mixture. Player HoundDawg asks:
  One of the three founding fathers of sociology has had a major impact on history by writing the "Communist Manifesto". Who is he?

    Max Weber
    Karl Marx
    Émile Durkheim
    Sigmund Freud

#2. Humanities Mixture. Player Rabotniko asks:
  In the rural American Midwest, a common adage is that corn plants should be knee high by when?

    the 4th of July
    the blink of an eye
    the time they die
    Rosh Hashanah

#3. Humanities Mixture. Player prana asks:
  To have an alternative plan or have a reserve in case of need is known as having something up one's what?

    alley
    back
    shoe
    sleeve

#4. Humanities Mixture. Player tritran5555 asks:
  The sun has set; you can see the turquoise, orange and lavender colors blend together in the evening sky. Soon, it will be dark. What is this very moment of the day called?

    Twilight
    Midnight
    Afternoon
    Night

#5. Humanities Mixture. Player FatherSteve asks:
  A 1927 addition to the Executive Mansion on the third floor of the White House in Washington, D.C., was the Solarium. What is a solarium?

    an astronomical observatory
    a place of quiet retreat
    a sunroom
    a safe room

#6. Humanities Mixture. Player pollucci19 asks:
  Which artist once described his paintings as "hand painted dream photographs"?

    Jan van Eyck
    Salvador Dali
    Filipo Lippi
    Donatello

#7. Humanities Mixture. Player heatherlois asks:
  'As I was going to St Ives,' is a nursery rhyme/riddle which has been around since the early 1700s. What are mentioned in the rhyme?

    Husbands/totes/hamsters
    Daughters/bags/dogs
    Wives/sacks/cats
    Sons/parcels/mice

#8. Humanities Mixture. Player BrightonDragon asks:
  In 2017, 'Salvator Mundi', a painting reputedly by Leonardo da Vinci, sold for a record price for any artwork or, indeed, any item at auction. This was surprising. Why?

    All these reasons
    It was over twice the price of any previous artwork sold
    Some experts had doubted its authenticity
    Religious paintings do not normally fetch the highest prices

#9. Humanities Mixture. Player BrightonDragon asks:
  Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" was based on TS Eliot's anthology of poems, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats". Which of these does NOT appear in book or play?

    Gus
    Cujo
    Mungojerrie
    Macavity

#10. Humanities Mixture. Player maninmidohio asks:
  What creature, first seen in the poem "Orlando Furioso" by Ludivico Ariosto, is produced when a griffin mates with a horse?

    Ariosto
    Orlando Furioso
    Hippogriff
    Equus